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Enemies of the People (The Journalist and the Mass Murderer)
This personal documentary exposes for the first time the truth about the Killing Fields and the Khmer Rouge who were behind Cambodia's genocide which was one of the greatest crimes of the twentieth century. In this film one of the key perpetrators and some of those involved in the day-to-day killing are interviewed, and the wider impact is examined. Members of director Thet Sambath’s family were killed, a fact he initially hides from Chea. When the filmmakers refused to make the rushes available in Chea's trial, citing journalistic responsibility to their source, the film became the subject of intense debate. e debate.
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Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story
Lance Armstrong perpetrated the greatest fraud in sporting history, cheating, bullying and relentlessly pursuing money, fame and success. He had been the most successful road cyclist of all time, winning 7 consecutive Tours de France and inspiring millions with his charity work after surviving testicular cancer. His fame brought him sponsorship deals worth millions and he became one of the sporting world's most dominant presences. Yet almost all his success depended upon doping. Getting away with it for so many years engendered a callous carelessness that brought everything crashing down. This film follows this collapse through interviews with those who uncovered, investigated and worked for Armstrong. A thorough examination of the biggest sporting scandal in our time.
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Biggie and Tupac
Biggie & Tupac is a no holds barred investigation into the unsolved murders of two of the biggest superstars rap has ever produced; Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace (aka Biggie Smalls and The Notorious B.I.G.). Both stars were gunned down in separate incidents, the apparent victims of hip hop's infamous east-west rivalry. Nick Broomfield's film introduces Russell Poole, an ex-cop with damning evidence that suggests the LAPD deliberately fumbled the case to conceal connections between the police, LA gangs and Death Row Records, the label run by feared rap mogul Marion 'Suge' Knight. Broomfield uncovers a compelling world of glamorised violence, police corruption, racial politics and murder.
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Art: Interrupted
The Jazz Baroness
Little Pyongyang
How the World Went Mad
Black Harvest
Joe Leahy's Neighbours
First Contact
The Condemned
Killing Gävle
Changemakers: Communication
Changemakers: Leisure
Changemakers: Work
Changemakers: Movement
Changemakers: Identity
The Nine Lives Of Alice Martineau
John Mortimer: A Life in Words
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Benefits of a Toilet
‘Loo’. ‘Crapper’. ‘WC’. Whatever you want to call it, fewer than one in three people worldwide have access to a proper, sanitary toilet. For women, this has particularly damaging repercussions.
Blood in the Mobile
The dark side of our cell phones. No company can say for sure that they didn't buy conflict minerals from the Congo to produce your cell phone. Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the most resource rich countries on the planet. These riches, however, feed and sustain the ongoing civil wars there. Tin is vital for electronics and large tin mines exist in eastern Congo; the nature of modern supply chains means no company can confirm that they didn't buy conflict minerals from the Congo. This film looks at the issue from both ends, examining both the mobile manufacturers and their refusal of corporate responsibility and the conditions of the mines for Congolese living in poverty. Throughout, director Frank Poulsen asks: is there blood in my mobile?
Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer
Aileen Wuornos was a highway prostitute convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Following up on his earlier film about her murders, Nick Broomfield talks to Wurnos, now awaiting execution on death row. In a tragic inditement of the US justice system, Broomfield's interviews reveal an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, deemed by the State of Florida to be sound of mind – and therefore fit to execute.
Happy Mother's Day
September 23, 1963 was a happy mother’s day for Mary Ann Fischer when she gave birth to quintuplets in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Only the third such recorded delivery, the Fischers made medical history in small town America. What better ingredients for a great story? Everyone thought so, including the Saturday Evening Post, which hired Richard Leacock to document the momentous events. Leacock brought Joyce Chopra on board and the two traveled to Aberdeen when the babies were just two weeks old. The ensuing film caused controversy, as what was meant to be a celebratory look at a happy family, turned into a portrayal of a town shamelessly exploiting a woman and her babies to gain money, fame and tourism.
Hammer & Tickle
For citizens of the Eastern Bloc, jokes were one of the only ways to vent displeasure with the USSR and their regimes. Jokes were risky, though: at least 250,000 people were locked up under Stalin for telling jokes. Communist jokes poked fun at all aspects of life: shortages, the gulag, repression and communist language. Reagan had agents tasked with keeping him informed of soviet humour; he used them as a barometer of mood and as punchlines for speeches. Featuring animated and sketch-based visualisations of jokes, this film takes a chronological look at funny jokes and the serious efforts to contain them.
Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story
Lance Armstrong perpetrated the greatest fraud in sporting history, cheating, bullying and relentlessly pursuing money, fame and success. He had been the most successful road cyclist of all time, winning 7 consecutive Tours de France and inspiring millions with his charity work after surviving testicular cancer. His fame brought him sponsorship deals worth millions and he became one of the sporting world's most dominant presences. Yet almost all his success depended upon doping. Getting away with it for so many years engendered a callous carelessness that brought everything crashing down. This film follows this collapse through interviews with those who uncovered, investigated and worked for Armstrong. A thorough examination of the biggest sporting scandal in our time.
From the Sea to the Land Beyond
From the Sea to the Land Beyond is a film about the British coast made from 100 years of our film heritage stored in the British Film Institute collection. Director Penny Woolcock stitches together the story of Britain's relationship with the sea and the coast using footage from the BFI National Archive, some going back to the very beginnings of film. The film examines industry, such as fishing and shipbuilding; war, with footage of soldiers on their way to the western front and Luftwaffe attacks; seaside leisure, Edwardian and current; nature and man'€™s relationship with it. British Sea Power'€™s acclaimed soundtrack runs the length of the film.
Rat
Captures the stories of New Yorkers who must fight off, and sometimes lose, to the resilient rats that pervade through the city’s sewers, streets, and buildings. Camera angles take the viewer behind the scenes of this phenomenon, beyond the walls, through the pipes and down into the underground on the trail of these reviled and feared rodents. By turns unsettling and amusing, Rat builds on the nature film genre, portraying unlikely adversaries in an urban power struggle.
Team Qatar
As part of its ambitious commitment to education, the government of Qatar hired a team of recent Oxford grads to coach the country's first national high school debate team for the World Schools Debating Championship in Washington DC,. Led by quintessentially witty Brit Alex, the five multicultural 15- to 17-year-olds are setting their sights high. Follow the group on a whirlwind crash course in debate that takes them from Doha to London and New York. Can this effervescent group of teens handle the pressure and succeed on the world stage?
Someday My Prince Will Come
Documentary following nine-year-old Laura Anne and her 11 year-old cousin, Steven, as they move towards the end of their childhoods over the course of a year. Set in a quiet village in Cumbria England against a striking backdrop of factories, fields and windmills frames the narrative as Laura Anne and her Steven experience the changing seasons and passing time. A reflection on young love and the loss of innocence, this film evokes a true nostalgia for childhood.
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Few events in recent history have been as difficult to depict faithfully in film as the Holocaust. This film explores Hollywood's approach to the Nazis greatest atrocity, beginning with its initial pre-war reluctance to alienate the lucrative German market. Gene Hackman guides us through World War II and onto the reaction to Nazi horrors. Challenged with such immense tragedy, Hollywood grew from trying to keep it in the abstract to attempting to depict it head-on.
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History
A documentary detailing the spread of Hawaiian sugar-cane toads through Australia. Using low camera angles to capture this story from the cane toad’s perspective, this film documents the unexpected and uncontrollable spread of the species. After being introduced as a predator to a beetle that was ravaging sugar cane plantations, these oversized amphibians drastically multiplied; leading to devastating consequences for local ecosystems. Equally humorous and horrific, it paints a captivating and original picture of an infamously grotesque animal.
The English Surgeon
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, English brain surgeon Henry Marsh has been visiting Ukraine to perform operations and improve the country'€™s outdated neurosurgery facilities and practices. Conditions are strained; Dr. Igor Kurilets, Henry'€™s Ukrainian partner, has to use an off-the-shelf power drill rather than a medical one. The film also looks at the difficulties of the doctor-patient relationship, especially when delivering life-changing or -ending news. The ethical dilemmas of working in a country where much of the Soviet state apparatus still exists are immense, but these doctors will not allow themselves to be held back.
Outside the Court
Based on a simple idea: standing outside a magistrates court in the UK and asking people going in and out why they're there and what got them there, Outside the Court becomes a film full of raw, unfiltered personalities who challenge pre-existing assumptions about criminality and criminals. This is a totally transparent piece of filmmaking, there is even a cameraman filming the cameraman.
Revolution: Dos and Don'ts
What happens to revolutionaries after the revolution? This is the story of Jiovana Navias, chosen by Morales Bolivian government to represent unemployed single mothers. Her explicit mandate was to represent those like her, some of the most marginalised Bolivians. Shot between 2007 and 2014, the film charts her initial campaigning and optimism, her frustrations with the compromises she has to make and her trial on corruption charges. Through her we see what happens when far-left ideology meets the realities of power.
Every Year, Every Hour, Every Minute
With abortion illegal in the majority of the developing world, unplanned pregnancies have dangerous consequences. Without contraception, women are denied choice over how their own families, forced to face often fatal consequences.
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Criminals LA: Larry Levine
Criminals Chile: Juan Davila
Criminals Chile: Claudio Borquez
The Favela Bar
Taxidermist
Criminals LA: Raquel, Queen of Bail
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Khalo Matabane short film - The Recurring Nightmare
Criminals LA: Nick ‘Mechanic’
Criminals Chile: Christian Llanquileo
Call of the Land
Criminals LA: Laura Graceux
The Singing Contest
Criminals LA: Ed Serrano
Criminals LA: John Denny
Black Rio
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Warriors From The North
Return to Homs
The Reluctant Revolutionary
First to Fall
Soldier Women: To See If I’m Smiling
Justice For Sale
First Contact
The Condemned
The Law of The Jungle
Disappeared By The IRA
Touched By Murder
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Black Harvest
Biggie & Tupac is a no holds barred investigation into the unsolved murders of two of the biggest superstars rap has ever produced; Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace (aka Biggie Smalls and The Notorious B.I.G.). Both stars were gunned down in separate incidents, the apparent victims of hip hop's infamous east-west rivalry. Nick Broomfield's film introduces Russell Poole, an ex-cop with damning evidence that suggests the LAPD deliberately fumbled the case to conceal connections between the police, LA gangs and Death Row Records, the label run by feared rap mogul Marion 'Suge' Knight. Broomfield uncovers a compelling world of glamorised violence, police corruption, racial politics and murder.
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Give Up Tomorrow (Innocent on Death Row)
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The Undocumented
My Afghanistan
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Benefits of a Toilet
Every Year, Every Hour, Every Minute
What If...
Playing the Game
What Ami Did Not Know
Facts of Life
Striving for Utopias
One Bride, Seven Cows or a Box of Heroin
It Started With a Duck
One Extra Year
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